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North American fans of Dua Lipa who’ve been clamoring for the U.S. to get a piece of the “Radical Optimism” tour will get their day… but they’ll have to wait for it, as Lipa won’t be coming to the States until September and October of 2025.

The pop superstar announced 20 dates in the U.S. and Canada for the fall of next year on Thursday, as part of a broader tour announcement that also included concerts she is adding onto her tour in Europe and other parts of the world starting in March.

The first U.S. shows will be Sept. 5-6 in Chicago, followed by similar two-nights stands in Boston Sept. 9-10, Atlanta Sept. 13-14, New York Sept. 17-18, Miami Sept, 26-27, Dallas Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Los Angeles Oct. 4-5, San Francisco Oct. 11-12 and Seattle Oct. 15-16. She has Canadian dates just prior to hitting the U.S., but not many — she’ll do two nights in Toronto next Sept. 1-2.

A general on sale for these 2025 shows begins Sept. 20 at dualipa.com.

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Singer Dua Lipa will be pulling double duty on the May 4 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” hosting and acting as the musical guest. The announcement was made during Saturday’s episode, hosted by Ryan Gosling and with music from Chris Stapleton.

Lipa’s upcoming third studio album “Radical Optimism” is set to drop on May 3. She has also dabbled in the acting world, last seen in this year’s big-budget spy adventure “Argylle” and last year’s “Barbie.”

Lipa recently spoke with Variety about the statement she is hoping to make with her upcoming record.

“I think for me, the importance of understanding that when things are bad, there’s always some light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. “I always think about it like, when I’m in the midst of a mess of turmoil or everything’s going wrong, I always tell myself, in a couple months, I’m gonna look back on that moment, and be like, thank God I walked through it. I didn’t decide to hide or not deal with the problem at hand, whatever it is, but actually choose to go through it. And that’s how I grew. And I feel like that just overall, especially in the world right now, I think it’s important that we just learn to walk through the fire and not hide away from it, or shy away from it. That’s just optimism. It’s probably the most daring thing we can do.”

Lipa’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” will be the 18th of Season 49. She was previously the musical guest on the Natalie Portman-hosted February 3, 2018 episode and the Kristen Wiig-hosted December 19, 2020 show.

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Music superstar Dua Lipa talks about joining the ‘Barbie’ universe as the co-writer and performer of the hit song “Dance the Night” – and her on-set memories playing the mermaids of Barbieland.

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Seth and Dua Lipa spend a day drinking at Studio 151 in New York City, where they do things like make Houdini-inspired cocktails and play a game where they have to tell the truth or take shots.

At The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual Women in Entertainment breakfast gala, Dua Lipa tells THR on the red carpet about her love for Adele, her new song, and more.

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Dua Lipa works her magic on multiple Billboard charts dated Nov. 25 with her new single, “Houdini.” Among other entrances, it begins as her first No. 1 on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

The song drew 23.8 million airplay audience impressions and 12.4 million official streams and sold 7,000 sold downloads in the U.S. Nov. 10-16, according to Luminate, following its release at 6 p.m. ET Nov. 9.

Lipa earns her second No. 1 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with the track, which previews her third studio album, expected in 2024. She spent 36 weeks at the summit with “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” with Elton John, beginning in October 2021.

The new song, whose title is an ode to famous late illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, also launches at No. 11 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, where it’s Lipa’s highest debut to date.

On the Radio Songs chart, “Houdini” starts at No. 25, likewise Lipa’s best beginning. It debuts at No. 16 on Pop Airplay, also a new personal first-week high, and No. 20 on Adult Pop Airplay.

As previously reported, “Houdini” enters at No. 3 on the Billboard Global 200, with 51 million streams and 13,000 sold worldwide. Lipa notches her fourth top 10 on the survey. The song also opens at No. 5 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, where it’s her fifth top 10.

Lipa celebrated the song’s arrival with fans at the Houdini Estate in Los Angeles on Nov. 14, inviting them to navigate an escape room and, once safely free (if?), to dance.

Following his death nearly a century ago, Houdini has reappeared as the subject of other chart hits. Walter Brennan spent a week at No. 100 on the Hot 100 in 1962 with “Houdini”; Kon Kan hit No. 33 on Dance Singles Sales in 1989 with “Harry Houdini”; and Foster the People’s “Houdini” hit No. 37 on Alternative Airplay in 2012.

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Dua Lipa answers juicy Fan Mail questions and reveals all about her new single ‘Houdini’, the success of ‘Dance The Night’ from the Barbie Movie, her red hair era and her upcoming album!

The rules of Fan Mail are simple; Dua Lipa can pass as many as three questions by shredding the questions, once they have used up all three passes they must answer every remaining question

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Dua Lipa has bought the rights to her publishing catalog from TaP Music Publishing, the company announced today. The sale arrives over a year after the singer, who was also previously a part of TaP’s artist management branch, parted ways with the company in February 2022. Lipa has been managed by her father, Dukagjin Lipa, since then.

TaP shared in a statement: “We wish Dua all the best for the future.” Anna Neville, TaP’s co-president, also added: “This is an exciting time for our publishing company – we are expanding our services and teams globally and continue to add talented writers and artists to our already stellar roster.”

Yesterday, Lipa announced her first new song since the Barbie soundtrack’s “Dance the Night,” “Houdini.” She is also set to star in Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming film Argylle. As for more new music on the horizon, Lipa has said her next album will debut in 2024.

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Following weeks of cryptic teasers and unsolved riddles, Dua Lipa has officially confirmed her new single “Houdini” will be arriving on Nov. 9

There was somewhat of an indication that Dua was close to releasing new music as a part of her much-buzzed-about new record when she wiped her Instagram and TikTok accounts of any previous content. She also replaced her profile picture on Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter), along with the thumbnails on her streaming channels, with similar kaleidoscope-esque images.

Earlier this week, she also began posting numerical riddles and video clips of her with a gold key in her mouth that led many to believe the single’s (at the time unannounced) title nodded to Harry Houdini, the Hungarian-American illusionist artist.

Dua’s last album was the Grammy award-winning “Future Nostalgia,” a March 2020 release. The latter gave way to pop radio mainstays like “Don’t Start Now” and “Levitating,” and Dua has been teasing her third album since early 2022 when she told Elton John on her “Dua Lipa: At Your Service podcast” that it was halfway finished.

However, “it’s taken a complete turn as I’ve carried on working, and I really feel now that it’s starting to sound cohesive,” she told Variety late last year. “So I’m going to keep writing in the early months of the new year and see where that takes me. The album is different — it’s still pop but it’s different sonically, and there’s more of a lyrical theme. If I told you the title, everything would make sense — but I think we’ll just have to wait.”

There has been very little solid information in the 11 months since that conversation. One source told Variety earlier this year that she had been working with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker (which may or may not be what she was referencing when she described the music to the New York Times in August as “1970s psychedelia”) as well as several producers and writers who’d worked on “Future Nostalgia.”

She worked with hit producer Mark Ronson on her fifth career top 10 hit “Dance The Night,” for the “Barbie” soundtrack, released over the summer. This August, Dua also appeared as the cover star for the New York Times Magazine and confirmed the album would be released this year.

That article also included some sonic teasers, like the fact that she doesn’t want to “alienate” her fans from her old sound, although she’s “developing a new sound that may be informed less by the house and disco beats beneath songs like ‘Physical’ and ‘Hallucinate’ than by 1970s-era psychedelia,” the publication wrote.

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